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Spring 2022 family mailing ideas - Coggle Diagram
Spring 2022 family mailing ideas
Arts and crafts
Make your own wildflower seed paper
Ladybird pencil pot - cardboard tubes and card
Cardboard maze - like this but a flower/leaf/minibeast
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJoe0dPsDUa/
Balancing bird/butterfly - using nuts and bolts, or blue-tack, attached to the wings
https://www.ronyestech.com/2020/05/how-to-make-paper-balancing-bird.html
Butterfly mask
Life cycle craft - possibly featuring a spinning disc element
Outdoor exploring
Incorporate 'Love Your Woods' campaign
Adjective bingo - can you find these words on a trip to the woods. Eg smooth, delicate, scented, soft, damp, rubbery etc
Tree hunting, but not species specific. So a tall tree, a tiny tree, a tree in a hedge, a tree on a street, a dead tree, an avenue of trees, a tree with a fat trunk etc.
Dawn chorus - for parents with tiny tots who are up early
Insect safari - how many different creatures can you spot on a walk?
Nature frames - cut large shapes out of cardboard and view nature through the opening
Trees and wildlife
What is ancient woodland? Factual piece for older age groups, with lovely imagery and some ancient woodland indicators to look out for. Think about linking to historic events they may have learnt about in school - eg ancient woods have been around since before the Great Fire of London.
Egg facts - not just birds, also butterflies, moths, frogs, toads, snakes etc.
Shield bug fact file
Elderflower jelly recipe
Dormouse fact file - focus on them waking up and being very active
Pine marten fact file
wildflowers - bluebells, anemones, ramsons, early orchids etc
blossom
emergence of insects
pollination
trees in leaf - tree id
Extra element
wildflower seeds
cress seeds - provide a flatpack card box they can plant them in, a bit like these
https://www.notonthehighstreet.com/clockworksoldier/product/grow-your-own-mini-jungle-garden
https://www.notonthehighstreet.com/letteroom/product/personalised-grow-a-magical-cress-garden
https://www.notonthehighstreet.com/clockworksoldier/product/make-your-own-woodland-plant-pals
https://www.ethicalsuperstore.com/products/johnsons-seeds/johnson-s-little-gardener-s-cress-garden-kit/
Large fold-out colouring poster
'Press out and build' 3D woodland animals
Tree/animal dominoes - really nice and visual, a bit like this
https://www.rexlondon.com/dog-dominoes
Misc
Comic strip activity - we provide some images/photos and kids fill in speech bubbles and captions to tell a story
Tongue twisters, jokes and limericks
WT's 50th birthday - a timeline/quiz/fab facts about our achievements
Competition - art/writing/photography/design a poster. An opportunity to encourage member engagement.
Carrot recipes eg carrot cake (loosely tie into Easter bunny/rabbits)
Issues
Climate change
Nature crisis
Deforestation
Tree disease and pests
Rewilding